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Crackdowns by Beijing and severe COVID restrictions have undermined its status. Friday marks the anniversary of the transfer of control.
The U.S. economy might have an easier time achieving a “soft landing” than economies in Europe and elsewhere.
International standards can be tools of globalization. They can also keep other countries locked within an economic orbit.
Restrictions on exports like fertilizer and steel have major economic ramifications for trading partners.
The IMF forecasts a slowdown in growth from 6.1% in 2021 to 3.6% in 2022. But the pandemic and the war could change its outlook.
The United Nations’ index of global food prices rose 12.6% in March, increasing the risk of hunger in the developing world.
Probably not, but Russia and China are likely to keep looking for ways to avoid U.S.-controlled financial infrastructure.
Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute says that could lead to less varied, costlier goods and a more divided and politically uncertain world.
A new trade deal with the U.K. will erase Trump-era tariffs on steel and aluminum imported into the U.S., and motorcycles and whiskey exported to the U.K.
These neighbors of Russia played no part in Putin’s invasion, but they are caught in the economic crossfire triggered by sanctions.